Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will debate next Tuesday, September 10, at 9 PM Eastern on ABC News in what is shaping up to be one of the most important political events of the year.
Your traditional options for watching the debate are not great:
1. Rely on mainstream media sources, which often breeze over substantive issues and treat the campaign like a sporting event.
2. Wade into social media and be subject to a torrent of misinformation, bigotry, and general nastiness.
On Tuesday, Popular Information will offer another option. We'll provide live, real-time fact-checking, analysis, and commentary throughout the 90-minute debate.
Like the Popular Information newsletter, everything we post will be meticulously factual, but we will never engage in false equivalence or performative objectivity. The chat will also be informed by my professional experience with presidential debates over the last two decades — including my role in debate preparation and strategy for more than two dozen presidential debates during Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. You will be empowered to share your reactions and engage with other thoughtful Popular Information readers.
The chat will be accessible via the Substack app or on the web.
And while Popular Information's newsletter is freely available to everyone, our chat during the presidential debate will be available exclusively to paid subscribers.
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Judd
I wasn't planning on watching at all, but this may be something I'm willing to do. Thank you!
Great idea, thank for doing this!